Volume 1 Lesson 7 Pray

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Lesson 7
LESSON 7 “Pray”
SECTION 1:
A Story of Prayer
Acts 4:23-31
What is prayer?
Philippians 4:6-7
Ephesians 6:18
Romans 8:26-28

In the Greek language, “pray” is the word “proseuchomai” [prosyoo'-khom-ahee], which is broken down into two words, "pros", which means towards, and "seuchomai”, which means to wish or to pray.

Why do I need to pray?

James 5:13-18
1 John 5:14-15
How do you pray?
Matthew 6:6-13
1 Thessalonians 5:16-19
                                            

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They  saw times when he prayed

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during the day
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Luke 3:21
 

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, times when he prayed all night
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Luke 6:12

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, and times when
he prayed alone with the Father
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Luke 5:15-16; 9:18

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The Study of Prayer
1 John 5:14 & 15,
1 John 5:14 & 15

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Go Further
Here are some optional readings for you as you live a lifestyle of
prayer:

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“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be  
alive without breathing.” ~ Martin Luther
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www.thinkexist.com, Martin Luther, Priest and Professor of Theology, 1483 –
1546

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"You can do more than pray after you have prayed; but you can never
do more than pray until you have prayed." ~ A.J. Gordon
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www.christianquotes.com, A.J. Gordon, American Baptist preacher, writer,
composer, and founder of Gordon College, 1836 – 1895

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“Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed,
but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always
revealing some new beauty." ~ E.M. Bounds
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3
www.christianquotes.com, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author,
1835-1913

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Jesus gives us the pattern prayer in what is commonly known as
“The Lord’s Prayer.” In this model of  perfect prayer, He gives us a
law form to be followed, and yet one to be filled in and enlarged as we
may decide when we pray. The outlines and form are complete, yet it
is but an outline, with many a blank, which our needs and convictions
are to fill in.
Christ puts words on our lips, words which are to be uttered by
holy lives. Words belong to the life of prayer. Wordless prayers are
like human spirits; pure and high they may be, but too ethereal and
impalpable for earthly conflicts and earthly needs and uses. We must
have spirits clothed in flesh and blood, and our prayers must be
likewise clothed in words to give them point and power, a local
habitation, and a name.
This lesson of “The Lord’s Prayer,” drawn forth by the request
of the disciples, “Lord, teach us to pray,” has something in form and
verbiage like the prayer sections of the Sermon on the Mount. It is the
same great lesson of praying to “Our Father which art in Heaven,” and
is one of insistent importunity. No prayer lesson would be complete
without it. It belongs to the first and last lessons in prayer. God’s
Fatherhood gives shape, value and confidence to all our praying.
In this prayer He teaches His disciples, so familiar to thousands
in this day who learned it at their mother’s knees in childhood, the
words are so childlike that children find their instruction, edification
and comfort in them as they kneel and pray. The most glowing mystic
and the most careful thinker finds each his own language in these
simple words of prayer. Beautiful and revered as these words are, they
are our words for solace, help and learning.
He led the way in prayer that we might follow His footsteps.
Matchless leader in matchless praying! Lord, teach us to pray as Thou
didst Thyself pray!
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4
The Reality of Prayer, Edward McKendree Bounds, Baker Books, 2004

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bounds/reality.pdf

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Volume 1 Lesson 5 Love

Lesson 5
LESSON 5 “Love”
SECTION 1:
Luke 10:25-37
Mark 12:30-31
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The Bible uses three Greek words to describe the English word for “love.” “Phileo” is the love between friends or brothers;

“eros” is the passionate, romantic love which is to be shared by a husband and wife;

and “agape” is the highest form of love

John 3:16
1 John 4:7-11
John 15:12-14
Galatians 5:13-14 1
1 John 4:8
John 5:19
1 John 4:7-11

1 John 4:7-11

Go Further
Here are some optional readings for you as you walk in obedience:
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3–7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.

Love doesn’t strut,

Doesn’t have a swelled head,

Doesn’t force itself on others,

Isn’t always “me first,”

Doesn’t fly off the handle,

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.

8–10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

The Message Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Divine love in the Greek language refers to a love that wholly sacrifices itself for the object of its love, realizing the precious value of it. For example, man and woman betrayed God and fell into deep sin resulting in an abominable life, which ultimately led to eternal destruction. In spite of this betrayal, God lovingly sacrificed Himself on Calvary to save mankind. Why? Because each individual soul is priceless to Him. This is divine love!
The Holy Spirit My Senior Partner, David Yonggi Cho, Charisma House, Lake Mary, FL 1989, p.12

The Holy Spirit, My Senior Partner

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"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals." ~ E.M. Bounds
www.christianquotes.org, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author, 1835-1913 

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"Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty, come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'" ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
www.christianquotes.org, Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist Pastor, 1834 - 1992

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"To love is to be vulnerable." ~ C.S. Lewis
www.christianquotes.org, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist, 1898-1963 

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